In staffing, we constantly lament the shortage of skills or the war for talent acquisition. Scarcity is a mindset that has largely stifled innovation. […]
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Cultural Alignment for a Successful Global Expansion
Businesses most often make the decision to expand overseas to diversify risk and income streams, while reducing dependence on a single market. However, success relies not only on an outward looking mind-set, but also a solid strategy and execution. […]
Looking for a new way to sell your Contingent Workforce program’s value to stakeholders? Use Net Promoter Score.
One of the most powerful ways to communicate your program’s value revolves around listening to your stakeholders. As Staffing Industry Analysts points out in a recent online article, a very effective way to sell your program is by instituting a formal measurement process that focuses on the “Net Promoter Score (NPS).” […]
Making the Shift to a Talent-Centric Supply Chain
Research has shown that productivity of average-performing employees is significantly less than that of top performers, and that difference becomes even more pronounced as the complexity of a job increases. In highly-complex occupations, superior talent was shown to be up to eight times more productive. […]
Moving beyond the traditional: How data and analytics can predict your company’s future non-employee labor needs
The advancement of sophisticated data and analytics is creating new possibilities across the non-employee labor world, offering companies previously unimaginable ways to position their programs for success unthinkable only a few years ago. […]
Behind the Future of Work Compendium and the Drive for Work Optimization
The Future of Work, for many organizations, can be a mythical and nebulous set of business standards that can be too confounding to truly grasp, yet, at its core, the main goal is simplistic enough: that all businesses should buy into the transformation of work, talent, and technology. […]
Shiny Objects
Who among us has never been tempted by the allure of something new and cool? It’s fun to be considered cutting edge- to be on the cusp of evolution. […]
How to Set Up a Global Governance Model
Global governance is a framework for the entire program to help all parties better understand and execute the company’s goals. Many people still think of governance as an executive layer over a program, but decisions and practices should be pervasive throughout the entire program. […]
Elements of a Successful Global Expansion (and How to Prepare)
Based on Staffing Industry Analysts’ most recent survey of 239 programs, 21 percent of the participants are looking to expand services to APAC over the next four years and 16 percent are looking to expand services to Europe and/or South America. […]
Safety and Your Contingent Workforce Program: Are You Swimming in Dangerous Waters?
If you manage a contingent program, ensuring safety conditions for your contingent workforce should be a top priority. Organizations heavily rely on temporary workers and that trend is expected to continue to grow. Due to recent and pending changes in laws and regulations, organizations who want to avoid expensive legal problems will pay close attention to temporary staffing. […]
